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'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's TermsSimon Gray: Plays 1 includes Quartermaine's Terms; Stage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110634Author Gail YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'Maybe she just doesn't wanna be found, maybe that last day she felt freedom was when she ran, and she just didn't stop, maybe that was it.' When her best friend Jay goes missing, Dee withdraws into a twilight world of fragmented memories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese...

This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of...

State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Attlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties and...

'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.' A series of random nocturnal assaults in the back streets and alleyways of Victorian London are spreading fear and panic. Meanwhile, the friends of a highly respected doctor are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115226Author Neil Anthony DockingFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Six generations, twenty-three characters one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder's thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Table was the first play to be staged in The Shed, a temporary venue at the...

The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four...

October 31st 1978. Thomond Park, Limerick. The mighty New Zealand All Blacks, oin an Irish tour, take on the none-too-mighty Munster team - and, to everyone's surprise, they lose 12-0. From this piece of Irish sporting history John Breen has fashioned a...

In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. ...

Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and that, though they may be together, they have never...

'A scared playwright won't write a good play. We're going to have to try to find a bit more steel.' - Telegraph Ryan Craig is not afraid of controversial topics. Described as a 'playwright with the ability to become one of the best of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761461Author Lucy GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.Alan Bennett Plays 1 includes Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy.About the AuthorALAN BENNETT has...

A modern gothic chiller inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Body Snatcher' Lost in the middle of nowhere, Emma, Caitlin, Zack and Danny seek shelter in an abandoned vicarage. Emma recognises the house from her nightmares and begs the others not to...

'We are all the authors of our own love story.' Casey's new boyfriend Brett is handsome, romantic and devoted - a dream come true. He writes poetry! He makes quiche! For once in her life, Casey is in a relationship with a man who attends to her every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103303Author Intronati of SienaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and...

'We should have brought a gift.' 'We've brought a gift. It's called twenty-two thousand pounds.' Purchased from Russia. Developed in India. Delivered to the UK. A global transaction over nine months that offers 'a lifetime of happiness' for all...

Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary as a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and...

Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of...

Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel's debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers. When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far-reaching effects. Not least for...

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573152061Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They've got a chance to be champions. But at what cost? When Ann joins Sophie's running club she's thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn't be more different, but soon...

A modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart - but from entirely different worlds...

Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and society Fire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It "is successful on every level; the story is as gripping...

An engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old...

"Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book." Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks,...

Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at...

Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine...

In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays made...

An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. 'One girl, against the happiness of the whole village. Can you not see it has to be done?' Midsummer. The village must choose a new Daughter to sail with the...

Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the live of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the...

'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic...

'There's somethin' about this house. Somethin' here. Somethin' in the walls. Its bones. Like DNA.' A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants...